Wagner
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-19-816487-6 (ISBN)
Description
Wagner's magnetic and egoistic personality, his theories on art, on revolution, and racial purity are set against his social and cultural background. In his analysis of the music Barry Millington distils the results of the most modern scholarship, making it available to the general reader.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
12 pp black and white halftones, 50 music examples, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-816487-6 (9780198164876)
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Content
Preface; Childhood and adolescence (1813-32); Chorus master and musical director (1833-9); Failure in Paris, success in Dresden; The bourgeois revolutionary (1848-9); Exile (1849-55); Blighted hopes (1856-63); Royal patronage and fulfilment of a dream (1864-76); A new creed (1877-83); Bayreuth Idealism: the catastrophe; The music; Die Feen and Das Leibesverbot; Rienzi; Die fliegende Hollander; Tannhauser; Lohengrin; Der Ring des Nibelungen; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Parsifal; Other instrumental and vocal works; Appendices; Index